Hi Kevin,
Your thoughts about flight calls are thought provoking. I have added a short
recording of a small flock of Snow Geese that may give some clues as to
there vocalization behavior. As you can see from my notes, they were
relatively calm and giving the high pitched calls but they soon became
agitated and the calls became more grunt like and they flew off grunting
like crazy. Unfortunately Martyn, they flew off before I could offer them
any tea for their grunts.
Thanks to Professor Walt Anderson for the recorded narration.
Jim
1-17 (0:31) Snow Goose - Recording 1: Calls of a small group of 35 Snow
Geese at 50 feet. The recording was made from inside a car. As I started to
get out of the car, the birds began flying away. (Recorded by Jim Morgan,
Bosque del Apache, NM, 1/11/00, 11:03 am) Recording No. 14-9
> You can access the file at the URL:
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/files/0146-1%20Snow%20Geese%20small%20group%2014%209%20%20R6%20.mp3
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